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[The satellite is] lost in space after going off course and losing power over Norway. "We're seeing this as a setback, not a failure"...

This reminds me of something from a movie.....

1 posted on 07/02/2025 1:58:57 PM PDT by dayglored
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Needed to look up this TV series...

The 1970s science fiction comedy series, Quark, featured a space garbage truck. The show, which aired in 1978, centered around Adam Quark and his crew aboard the United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow. Their primary duty was to collect “space baggies” filled with garbage throughout the galaxy. The show parodied popular science fiction tropes of the time.


25 posted on 07/02/2025 3:14:57 PM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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Whenever $88 million dollars is lost, it’s a failure.


26 posted on 07/02/2025 3:16:58 PM PDT by Salvavida (NS)
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That Bezos wedding screwed things up


27 posted on 07/02/2025 3:17:03 PM PDT by xp38
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Maybe overnighted to the wrong address?


29 posted on 07/02/2025 3:35:10 PM PDT by Mlheureux
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I find it ironic that Bezos’ New Glenn rocket uses natural gas (mostly methane) as fuel in the first stage.


30 posted on 07/02/2025 3:36:39 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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Porch Pirates


31 posted on 07/02/2025 3:39:45 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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BRAAAAAAP!


32 posted on 07/02/2025 3:59:27 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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It is both a setback and a failure.


33 posted on 07/02/2025 4:16:24 PM PDT by tommythev (No Dick Dale in the R&R HOF? for shame!)
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I have noticed that the "Space Community" is always dumping on Space X, which has proven reliable,
but they are always cheering for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin which has only had one orbital flight.
As history demonstrates, exuberance leads to death.
34 posted on 07/02/2025 4:20:51 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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Sounds like it ran out of gas.


35 posted on 07/02/2025 4:29:23 PM PDT by PAR35
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Which reminds me ... I haven't been out for Mongolian grill in quite a while.

Two plates of stir fry beef with extra onions, and I'll have those satellites' homing instincts back on track in no damn time.
36 posted on 07/02/2025 4:42:58 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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Good. Let the cows fart in peace!


37 posted on 07/02/2025 4:45:31 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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For some reason I keep channeling Dr. Jacob Bronowski from the old “Ascent of Man” series and pronouncing it me-thane in my head.


40 posted on 07/02/2025 8:18:46 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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